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Impacts of nonstate, market-driven governance on Chilean forests

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Heilmayr, Robert Lambin, Eric [UCL]

Global markets for agricultural products, timber, and minerals are critically important drivers of deforestation. The supply chains driving land use change may also provide opportunities to halt deforestation. Market campaigns, moratoria, and certification schemes have been promoted as powerful tools to achieve conservation goals. Despite their promise, there have been few opportunities to rigorously quantify the ability of these nonstate, market-driven (NSMD) governance regimes to deliver conservation outcomes. This study analyzes the impacts of three NSMD governance systems that sought to end the conversion of natural forests to plantations in Chile at the start of the 21st century. Using a multilevel, panel dataset of land use changes in Chile, we identify the impact of participation within each of the governance regimes by implementing a series of matched difference-in-differences analyses. Taking advantage of the mosaic of different NSMD regimes adopted in Chile, we explore the relative effectiveness of different policies. NSMD governance regimes reduced deforestation on participating properties by 2–23%. The NSMD governance regimes we studied included collaborative and confrontational strategies between environmental and industry stakeholders. We find that the more collaborative governance systems studied achieved better environmental performance than more confrontational approaches. Whereas many governmentconservation programs have targeted regions with little likelihood of conversion, we demonstrate that NSMD governance has the potential to alter behavior on high-deforestation properties.

Document type Article de périodique (Journal article) – Article de recherche
Access type Accès restreint
Publication date 2016
Language Anglais
Journal information "Proceedings of the National academy of sciences of the United States of America" - Vol. 113, no.11, p. 2910-2915 (2016)
Peer reviewed yes
Publisher National academy of sciences
issn 0027-8424
e-issn 1091-6490
Publication status Publié
Affiliation UCL - SST/ELI/ELIC - Earth & Climate
Keywords deforestation ; timber ; certification ; program evaluation ; supply chains
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Bibliographic reference Heilmayr, Robert ; Lambin, Eric. Impacts of nonstate, market-driven governance on Chilean forests. In: Proceedings of the National academy of sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 113, no.11, p. 2910-2915 (2016)
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